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January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.

January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).

January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages, and loved across the world.

January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in France by Armand Colin.

January 17 - Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut.

January 18 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Union; he moves to Turkey January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany

January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

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February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty

Febuuary 11 - Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo premieres in New York

February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters, rivals of Al Capone, are murdered in Chicago.

February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced

February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.

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March 3 - Revolt attempt of Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.

March 4 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.

March 16 - A part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach. The film stars Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.

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May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City.

May 14 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.

May 15 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.

May 16 - First Academy Awards

May 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.

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June 7 - In Britain Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority

June 7 - The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified

June 8 - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.

June 21 - Agreement brokered by US ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. In June 27, church bells ring for the first time in years

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July 5 - Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of D.H. Lawrence from the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency

July 24 - French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand

July 24 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).

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August 8 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).

August 19 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

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September 5 - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe

September 7 - Steamboat Kuru sinks in Näsijärvi, Tampere, Finland - 136 drowned

September 17 - Coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras in Lithuania; new president is Antanas Smetona

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October 11 - JC Penney opens Store
1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.

October 22 - Government of Aristide Briand falls in France

October 29 - Black Tuesday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange

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November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

November 15 - The Ambassador Bridge is opened to traffic.

November 18 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28. As of 1997, it is Canada's most lethal earthquake.*

November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

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December 2 - First phone booths in London

December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.

December 29 - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence

December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time

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Third Geneva Convention

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.

Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.

Civil war in Afghanistan

Lapua Movement in Finland

Branch Davidian sect founded in Los Angeles

Start of the Soviet-Chinese Conflict

May - Wickersham Commission began investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.

Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.

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January 3 - Sergio Leone, Italian film director (d. 1989)

January 4 - Thomas Lincoln, American Medical Informaticist

January 6 - Babrak Karmal, third President of Afghanistan (d. 1996)

January 9 - Brian Friel, Northern Irish dramatist

January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)

January 17 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)

January 20 - Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)

January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer

January 28 - Acker Bilk, American jazz clarinetist

January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, Swedish sculptor

January 27 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. 1984)

January 31 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

January 31 - Jean Simmons, English actress

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February 5 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)

February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician

February 6 - Pierre Brice, French actor

February 14 - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)

February 15 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (d. 1975)

February 17 - Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (d. 2002)

February 17 - Patricia Routledge, English actress

February 18 - Len Deighton, British author

February 28 - Hayden Fry, American football coach

February 28 - Frank Gehry, Canadian-born architect

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March

March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
March 4 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
March 9 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
March 17 - Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born sociologist
March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, British runner

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April

April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-born author
April 5 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 6 - André Previn, German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
April 8 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
April 10 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
April 17 - Michael Forest, American actor
April 18 - Peter Jeffrey, British actor (d. 1999)
April 24 - Dr. Rajkumar, Famous Kannada film actor and singer (d. 2006)

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May

May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
May 4 - Sydney MacDonald Lamb, American linguist
May 6 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 10 - Antonine Maillet, Canadian author
May 14 - Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player
May 14 - Henry McGee, English actor
May 21 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist
May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano

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June

June 1 - Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
June 2 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
June 3 - Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 6 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
June 10 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (d. 2005)
June 12 - Brigid Brophy, English author (d. 1995)
June 12 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
June 13 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
June 16 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
June 17 - Tigran Petrosian, Russian chess player (d. 1984)
June 21 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
June 23 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
June 26 - Milton Glaser, American graphic designer
June 29 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (d. 2006)

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July

July 1 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 2 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
July 4 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
July 5 - Tony Lock, English cricketer (d. 1995)
July 9 - King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
July 11 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (d. 1998)
July 13 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast
July 18 - Dick Button, American figure skater
July 18 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (d. 2000)
July 24 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
July 25 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
July 26 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist
July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy (d. 1994)
July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author.

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August

August 1 - Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
August 8 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
August 16 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
August 16 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
August 24 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2004)
August 26 - Maurice Tempelsman, Belgian diamond merchant and financier
August 28 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
August 29 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)

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September

September 1 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
September 5 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (d. 2004)
September 6 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2004)
September 8 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
September 9 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
September 15 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
September 15 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 20 - Anne Meara, American comedienne and actress
September 21 - Bernard Williams, British philosopher (d. 2003)
September 25 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (d. 2005)
September 25 - Barbara Walters, American journalist
September 28 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer

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October

October 7 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
October 12 - Robert Coles, American psychologist and author
October 14 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer
October 16 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
October 24 - George Crumb, American composer
October 24 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (d. 2004)
October 28 - John Hollander, American poet

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November

November 2 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
November 8 - Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician
November 9 - Imre Kertesz, Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
November 11 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
November 15 - Edward Asner, American actor
November 19 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
November 30 - Dick Clark, American television entertainer

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December

December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-born conductor
December 9 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
December 16 - Nicholas Courtney, British actor
December 16 - James Moore, British author
December 17 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (d. 1993)
December 23 - Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)
December 28 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)

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Deaths

January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (b. 1856)
January 13 - Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter (b. 1848)
January 30 - La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
February 8 - Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
February 12 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
February 14 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (b. 1844)
April 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (b. 1855)
May 21 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
June 11 - William Dickson Boyce, American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858)
June 16 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
June 28 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
August - Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (b. 1881)
August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-born economist (b. 1857)
August 3 - Emil Berliner, German-born inventor (b. 1851)
August 5 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
August 26 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar in East Asia (b. 1843)
August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (b. 1892)
September 12 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
September 23 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
September 24 - Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai doctor (b. 1892)
September 29 - Tanaka Giichi, 26th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1863)
October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
October 3 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1890)
October 3 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
October 28 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
November 6 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
November 24 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
December 10 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
December 20 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b. 1838)
December 29 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

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Nobel prizes

Physics - Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
Chemistry - Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
Physiology or Medicine - Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Literature - Thomas Mann
Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg